The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work

"While she recognizes the necessity for school reform and the
complexity of implementing it, Darling-Hammond remains optimistic
that systemic changes to ensure access to a meaningful education
for all children are possible. Her book is positive and hopeful and
serves as a fascinating account of American education and its
promise of 'the right to learn' for all children."
—Washington Post

"Darling-Hammond's central claim is well worth listening to. She
argues that American students do so poorly by comparison with
students in other industrialized countries not because we don't
give them enough work, but because our teaching is less thoughtful,
and because we are obsessed with bureaucratic processes rather than
educational outcomes."
—New York Times Book Review

One of the nation's most respected educators provides a vision
of exceptional, learner-centered schools and describes the policies
and practices that are needed to create these schools on a
system-wide basis.

LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, and executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. She lives in Stanford, California with her husband and three children.

"In The Right to Learn, Linda Darling-Hammond gives readers a
comprehensive, thoughtful look at the condition of American
schooling and sets forth proposals for its improvement . . . . This
well-organized and meticulously documented book presents an agenda
for re-creating public education." (Washington Post)

"Darling-Hammond's central claim is well worth listening to. She
argues that American students do so poorly by comparison with
students in other industrialized countries not because we don't
give them enough work, but because our teaching is less thoughtful,
and because we are obsessed with bureaucratic processes rather than
educational outcomes." (The New York Times Book Review)

"This is a very fine work-well argued, comprehensive, and
authoritative. It will be treated as a Bible-or, more properly, a
Constitution-by those seriously engaged in the improvement of
American public education." (Howard Gardner, professor of
education, Harvard University, and author of Leading Minds)

"If only I could get every American who claims to be concerned
about our schools to read this thorough, readable, and brilliant
book. Linda Darling-Hammond knows our schools as no one else
does-as a scholar, hands-on researcher, practitioner, concerned
citizen, and parent. She crosses all the boundaries that so often
divide us. And all sides of her diverse strengths show in her work
and in this extraordinary book. As a reader you'll love it, and
you'll come away wise as well." (Deborah Meier, senior fellow,
Annenberg Institute of School Reform, author of The Power of Their
Ideas, and principal, The Mission Hill school, Boston)

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